City of Lorain delays some 2014 road repairs

Some Lorain road repairs planned for this year will be delayed into 2015 due to a lack of bids on a road contract.

The city of Lorain is seeking bids for the road construction known as Contract C. It is one of six contracts encompassing city road repairs in 2014 that will be paid for with Street Repair Levy money that voters approved in November 2012.

The city sought bids for Contract C on Aug. 13, but had no bidders, said City Engineer Dale Vandersommen. In summer 2013 and 2014, Lorain has had extensive street repairs, but Contract C was the first time in the last two years that the city had no bidders on the street work, he said.

Engineering staff called a couple companies that have bid on city work before and the contractors said they could not squeeze in the work due by Lorain’s completion date of Oct. 15, Vandersommen said.

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In the new contract, the work will have a completion date of June 30, 2015, and the winning contractor likely will have to do the repairs in the spring next year, Vandersommen said.

Contract C estimated cost is more than $1.44 million for work on five streets:
• G Street from Euclid Avenue to Dakota Avenue/Root Road
• Garfield Boulevard from Day Drive to Root Road
• New Jersey Avenue from Colorado Avenue to Wilson Street
• Cleveland Boulevard from address 2885 to address 3126
• F Street from Colorado Avenue to Illinois Avenue

The new bid due date is Sept. 10.

The road projects that will be prepared as Contract D still are in the planning phases and likely will have a similar completion date next year, Vandersommen said.

There is no bid due date yet for Contract D, which has an estimated cost of $1.57 million for five streets:
• West Fourth Street from Oberlin Avenue to Broadway
• West Fifth Street from Oberlin Avenue to West Erie Avenue
• Cornell Place from West Sixth Street to Sixth Court
• Meister Road and West 33rd Street from Oberlin Avenue to Falbo Avenue
• Reid Avenue from West 22nd Street to West 28th Street

The city also is seeking bids for two other projects.

Bids are due Sept. 2 for the city’s Ohio Public Works Commission Round 28 Contract A. The city is seeking to replace West 45th Place from Queen Anne Avenue to Washington Avenue and Hickory Hill Avenue from West 45th Place to Kingsway Drive, a job estimated to cost $420,000.
Bids are due Sept. 9 for the West Erie Avenue slope repair project and culvert rehabilitation near Beaver Park Marina. That job has an estimated cost of about $70,000.

Bid specifications are available through the city of Lorain’s Engineering Department at City Hall, 200 W. Erie Ave. The project notices also are posted at www.cityoflorain.org.